Chika Okeke-Agulu, professor of art history at Princeton, says that the sale of the two alusi would "perpetuate the violence" of the 1960s civil war, when the sculptures were "removed" from …
Reni Eddo-Lodge's Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race was a sensation when she first published it, but it took a lot of police brutality for her book to top the lists. She n…
Zafón, who had been dealing with colon cancer for two years, wrote The Shadow of the Wind after a visit to a book warehouse in Los Angeles. It became the second-best-selling Spanish book …
Francesco and Grazia Lotoro have spent their lives collecting and cataloguing "symphonies, operas, scores and songs that were composed and performed under conditions so horrible one imagines…
For one thing, it's really time to change the name of "Father Serra Park" in Los Angeles. But taking down the statues to the architect of the mission system, which brutalized thousands of Na…
Banes' writing "paired a vivid and inquisitive approach with a lack of agenda and a belief that dance was a crucial part of cultural history." " The New York Times
It doesn't seem clear what will happen until there's a vaccine, but perhaps " "Museums will reopen, and galleries can stop pretending their online viewing rooms are actual shows. Exhibitions…
Our brains, working at home: "The kitchen is a mess. How can I concentrate when I know that two rooms over, the kitchen is a mess? The sink is filled with plates and glasses that couldn't fi…
John Wilson's student mural The Incident made such an impression on David Siquieros that the famous muralist and head of Mexico's Department for the Protection and Restoration of Murals requ…
The director in lockdown says he reads and watches everything: "WrestleMania. The Kardashians. I'm fascinated by it. So I don't say read Tolstoy and nothing else. Read everything. See everyt…
After the murders in Charleston and in Charlottesville, the National Trust for Historic Preservation encouraged contextualization of monuments to the Confederacy. But now, "we thought long a…
Writer Elizabeth Alexander: "Seeing is important, and helps you understand. But I think the repetition of that image without thought to who's watching it and how it affects them is something…
Malcom Procter, street artist and clothing designer, as he paints the plywood covering Nordstrom's in downtown Seattle: "Never did I think I'd get a canvas like this. … This is a dream spo…
Bolton's lawyer; "The full story of these events has yet to be told"but it will be." " Slate
Sorry, Cats!, "It's the ultimate cult movie. The first. The biggest. The one cult movie to rule them all." And despite the Covid-19 shutdowns, Rocky Horror Picture Show devotees have found w…
Economic support already wasn't great before the pandemic in Oregon, ranked 39th in the country for its support of the arts. "The subscription model, which has been the life-blood of so many…
In the late 1950s, Northern joined the Metropolitan Opera symphony, "where, he later recalled, as the only African-American member he was often subjected to racist abuse " reminiscent of wha…
Theatre workers who design and build productions are perfect for this moment, some of them say. "'For anyone who has arts training, they are taught early on how to collaborate with people. A…
In a sign that the lockdown really is loosening up, and perhaps that art can't be stopped, "anyone wandering along a quiet street in central Seville at 8:30pm on Saturday would have witnesse…
New lidar technology revealed the formerly hidden, at least from the ground, site. The "lidar survey found 21 other monumental platforms, clustered in groups around the region. But Aguada Fe…
Not that authors didn't know; or rather, not that authors of color, especially Black authors, didn't know " but the numbers are stark. The hashtag #PublishingPaidMe, started by author L.L. M…
Quarantined during a cholera epidemic 190 years ago, the poet excelled. "Pushkin, who would never be allowed to travel outside Russia and was now stranded in the countryside amid 'rain, snow…
There's no clarity about it. One responder from Los Angeles: "Without a vaccine or a cure, to attend a performance would not be a rational choice. The issue is not the statistical prob…
How should food writing work? "On the one hand, it should communicate the demands of craft, expressing the physical skill of cookery with words on a page; on the other, food writing should c…
Why do people tend to think crime has increased or stayed at a high level? Well, perhaps it's the many cop shows on TV. And those series have some issues. "Of the 26 series from the 2017-18 …